paulfromcamden
Baffled
There's also the fact that if you're living in a room in a houseshare because rent is so high - and I know plenty of peeps in London in their 40s still doing this - a load of hi-fi boxes and 2000 records is pretty much the last thing you need.This was my point really, not that kids don't like music or there isn't any good new music coming out, but that commenting on threads here about expensive kit putting off the kids is pointless because they aren't buying the cheap stuff either as it's not how they're listening to music.
One device like a phone covers many bases plus we have the 'rent everything' generation now so media is all on subscription along with the phone, in fact a lot of phone contracts come with bundled media subscriptions so the outlay aspect is moot because they're having the phone anyway which in effect is a free hi-fi.